Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...royal House of Saud in more danger than the West suspected? Does the presence of about 5,000 U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia bolster or undercut stability in the land? Could it go the way of Iran? Its future matters immensely because it produces 8 million bbl. of oil...
Western policymakers are worried that the kingdom's current economic slump is providing new recruits to the ranks of the opposition. Lower oil prices, huge government debts and the staggering $60 billion cost of the war have combined to cut Saudi Arabia's per capita income in half. The soaring population is generating a wave of young, middle-class urbanites who are coming out of strictly religious universities to find there are no jobs for them. Unemployment among young people may be as high as 25%. Set these conditions against the high living and charges of corruption in the House...
...specific role of the Air Force in Dhahran is to enforce the no-fly zone imposed on southern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War. But more generally, America's mission in the Persian Gulf is to protect the flow of oil. The gulf states produce two-thirds of the world's supply, so their stability is vital to the global economy. As the U.S. sees it, the biggest threats to that stability are Iraq and Iran, two powerful countries with ambitions to someday dominate the region. The U.S. policy of keeping both Iraq and Iran in check is known...
UNITED NATIONS: Several months after Iraq accepted an oil-for-food deal with the U.N, allowing it to sell about $2 billion worth of oil in order to buy much needed food and medicine, the deal is now entangled in U.N. negotiations and a firm U.S. protest over some unusual items on the Iraqi grocery list, specifically computers and oil-drilling and telecommunications equipment. The U.S. is also troubled by Iraq's plan to control distribution of supplies to the beleaguered Kurdish population from Baghdad, since both the U.S. and the U.N. are concerned that the Kurds...
...food preparation. All those years of shunning learning how to cook (since I equated it with the evil of domesticity) show through clearly in my helplessness in preparing even the simplest meal. I tried to hide my awe when one of my roommates threw two chicken breasts and some oil into a pan and out came dinner. I still haven't gotten to the point of boldly stepping up to the stove and trying to do it myself...